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Area/Game:Wooden Ships & Iron Men
1Topic:Bugs and Improvements
Subject:Re: Historic Arbuthnot et des Touches
Posted by: karllagov - 15years 100days ago.
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BlueDragon wrote:
karllagov wrote:
That's all fine, but sticking to the boring unfair WSIM original games is the wrong strategy, imho.

I want to play a strategy game and not relive the 80s. A scenario, even though it might be historical, which is unbalanced is boring.

Switching sides is only good to make the boredom fair. Everybody gets a win and a loss. Great.

I bet you:
Check the players who like to play the unbearable 4:3 scenario. Those are the ones who will sign up for the new Arbuthnot - but they won't switch sides.

I really like the setup of this scenario but this is a case where playing by the book is a dead end.

The other Arbuthnot scenario might have nonsense values, but it's playable.

KL

As I said, goal number 1 is to re-create WS&IM as it was, so we will have definitely have the "boring unfair" original scenarios (as you call them ) for those who want to play them here online.
However, we ALSO want many good balanced scenarios to play with, so we will *also* create balanced ones, either by making "balanced versions" of the original ones or by making brand new ones.
These are not conflicting goals as we can easily have both things

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I am totally fine with that. You should focus on some medium sized fair scenarios, though, because those are hard to create. It's always easy to create unbalanced ones.

I just stay away from the ones I don't like. The 4:3 is the worst, followed by all the pirate ones.

I always hated the scenarios in the WSIM rule book. Setting up Battle of Trafalgar took ages and then the Spanish had no chance at all. I remember us begin thrilled when the setup was finally done and then... the Spanish had no chance, the game became boring.

As often pointed out, WSIM is just a board game not a good simulation of naval battles, therefore all the historic scenarios are ... nice but not more.
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